"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
"It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice."
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Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country.
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